Hillsfar
Platform: Commodore 64
Gametype: Undefined
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Play a would-be hero in the city of Hillsfar, where action and adventure await the daring adventurer. Join the local guild and complete missions from the guild master in a quest for glory and gold!

Hillsfar is a single-hero role-playing game (in comparison to other Advanced Dungeons & Dragons role-playing games, where the player usually controls a group of characters). A combination of first person perspective (when traveling in the city of Hillsfar) and third person perspective (usually in some action-style mini-quests) viewpoints.

As a would-be-hero, four classes are available in a randomly generated mission-based plot: fighter, thief, cleric, or magic-user. Each class to a certain extent, have different assigned quests given by each respective guild.

In Hillsfar, gameplay usually consists of various mini-games that are needed to complete the quests or missions provided at the local guild by the guild master. These mini-games (and their viewpoints) include:
Fighting in the arena (Third Person); 
Competing at the archery range (First Person); 
Exploring buildings or mazes (Top-down); 
Riding a horse outside Hillsfar while avoiding obstacles (Third Person/Side-Scrolling); 
Locking picking doors and chests (First Person).
 Unlike most role-playing games, there aren't any randomly generated monsters to battle. In Hillsfar, combat only occurs in the arena.

Trivia

 The cover artwork, by Clyde Caldwell, was first used two years earlier as the cover to the 1987 Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Adventure Gamebook #15: The Vanishing City. 

 While not part of the Pools of Radiance series, you can import your characters from those games into this game. 

Awards
Power Play 
Issue 01/1990 - #2 Best Role Playing Game in 1989

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Description from the packaging:

A Forgotten Reams action adventure
Hillsfar: A city in the magical Forgotten Realms game world, rich with quests and challenges.
Hillsfar: An incredible fantasy that combines the best of role-playing adventures and fast paced action games.

Every visit to Hillsfar is a different, exhilarating experience. Explore the city, meet it's colorful denizens on the streets or in pubs and discover a quest (there are many possible ones).
Transfer your favorite character from the Pool of Radiance or Azure Bonds AD&D role-playing games, or create one from scratch. Your quest and the options available to you each game will change to suit your character's specialty (thief, mage, cleric or fighter).

Your quest will keep you constantly on the move. Fight in the arena against raging Minotaurs, ill-tempered orcs or insulted swordsmen. Enter different buildings and your maze-running and lock-picking skills will be required. Archery and equestrian events may also be part of your overall quest.
Think fast. Move fast. These mini-games happen in real time!
For both adventure and action, there's no place like Hillsfar!
Beautiful graphics present the city of Hillsfar in both 3-D and overhead views.
The arena, where you'll fight for fame, fortune or freedom.

Lock picking, one of the many skills you may need to succeed in your quest.
Wander through Hillsfar, a "living" city, and go any number of quests.
Transfer your character from the Pool of Radiance or the Azure Bonds games or create new ones.
Quests are tailored to the character class of your hero, such as thief, cleric, mage or fighter.
Numerous animated action mini-games including horseback-riding, archery practice and arena combat.
Lower-level characters can gain much experience; higher-level ones will find a different kind of reward.
Amazing graphics including 3-D and overhead views of the buildings and streets of the city.



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